JENNI SORKIN Department of History of Art & Architecture || University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106-7080 || [email protected] || +1 203.809.8919 c. EDUCATION Yale University, New Haven, CT, 2004-2010 Ph.D. 2010, History of Art Graduate Qualification 2010, Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies M.Phil, 2007, History of Art MA, 2005, History of Art Co-Advisors: Edward Cooke Jr. and David Joselit Committee Members: Carol Armstrong and Sally Promey Bard College, The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale, NY MA, Curatorial Studies, 2002 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago BFA, Fiber/Material Studies and Photography, 1999 ACADEMIC POSITIONS Associate Professor with Tenure (2017-present) History of Art & Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara Affiliate Faculty, Department of Studio Art (2013-present) Affiliate Faculty, Feminist Studies (2013-present) Affiliate Faculty, Department of History (2019-present), Gender and Sexuality Cluster Assistant Professor (2013-2017) History of Art & Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara Winter 2021: Visiting Professor, University of Arkansas, Winter Intersession - Invitational Course ARHS 4031: American Craft, Material Culture, and the Contemporary - Taught in conjunction with Crafting America exhibition, held at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art - Combined student population: University of Arkansas (half), - Atlanta University Center Consortium at Spelman College (HBCU) (half) Fall 2019: Visiting Critic, Fibers Department, Tyler School of Art, Temple University - One week each in September, October and December - Conducted MFA studio visits, participated in public MFA critiques, - Gave two public talks Fall 2019: Terra Foundation Immersion Semester Sponsoring Professor - Advisee: Francesca Wilmott, PhD candidate - Home institution: Courtauld Institute of Art, London (Jo Applin, advisor) - Dissertation: Far Out California: Regionalism in Post-1960s American Art 2018-2019 Inaugural Summer Faculty, Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, North Carolina - Low-Residency MA in Critical Craft Studies - Immersive daily sessions teaching Critical Race Theory, Feminist Theory, Craft History, and Material Culture Theory to MA students with mainly studio art backgrounds - Two consecutive summers: July 25-30, 2018; July 27-August 3, 2019 Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History and Critical Studies University of Houston, School of Art Affiliate Faculty, Women and Gender Studies 2011-2013 Graduate: AH 3301 Methodologies of Art History; AH 3395 Contemporary Art Criticism; AH 3395 Professional Practices Writing Seminar (MFA students) Undergraduate: AH 2394 Art Since 1945; AH 2394 Post-1945 Architecture, Craft and Design; AH 2456 Introduction to Critical Theory; AH 2395 The 1970s: Feminist Art and Culture Visiting Faculty, MA Program in Curatorial Studies The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College 2009-2010 Graduate Committee Member Pro-seminar: Contemporary Exhibition History; MA Writing Seminar; History of Curating Exhibitions (with Maria Lind) Yale University Fall 2008 School of Art, MFA Program ARTH 120: First-Year Post-War Art History Graduate Seminar 2005-2007 Graduate Teaching Fellow, Department of the History of Art American Art: Colonies to Cold War; History of Art from Renaissance to the Present; History of Art from Ancient to Baroque; Pre-Columbian Architecture California State University, Fullerton Spring 2004 Instructor, ART 300: Modern Art Survey Department of Art & Art History 2 Fellowships & Awards 2021-22 Getty Residential Grant and Consortium Scholar, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles ($67,000) 2021 Faculty Research Grant, Academic Senate, UCSB ($7200) 2019 Co-Organizer, Terra Foundation Grant for two-day symposium: “Expanding Outliers in American Art,” symposium at Los Angeles County Museum of Art ($15,000) - Held in conjunction with West Coast presentation of Outliers and the American Vanguard (organized by National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.) - Graduate seminar “Otherness in American Art” (Winter 2019) organized in tandem with the exhibition and symposium 2018 Curator-in-Residence, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME 2016 Andrew Glasgow Writer-in-Residence, Penland School of Crafts, NC 2016 Global Fine Art Award (GFAA), Best Contemporary/Post-War Group Show Exhibition for Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947-2016 2014-15 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellow ($35,000) 2012-13 Craft Research Fund, Center for Craft, Asheville, NC ($12,500) 2012 New Faculty Fellowship, University of Houston ($6000) 2011 Provost’s Travel Grant, University of Houston ($750) 2010-11 Pacific Standard Time Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles ($30,000) 2009-10 Robert M. Leylan Fellowship in the Humanities, Yale University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences ($25,000) 2009 Getty Library Research Grant ($1500) 2008-09 Henry Luce Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Dissertation Fellowship in American Art ($25,000) 2008-09 Renwick Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian Institution (declined) 2008 Duke Feminist Theory Conference (conference grant) ($750) 3 Women, Gender, and Sexualities Studies Department, Yale University 2007 Josef and Anni Albers Foundation Travel Fellowship (Peru), Anthropology Department, Yale University ($5000) 2007 Graduate Research Award, Center for Craft, Asheville, NC ($10,000) 2006 Edith and Richard French Summer Pre-Prospectus Fellowship, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University ($2500) 2006 Emerging Leadership Award, American Craft Council (conference grant) 2004-09 Yale University Graduate Fellowship 2004 Art Journal Award, College Art Association 2000-02 Curatorial Studies Fellowship, CCS, Bard College Publications Books In progress Skin-Grid-Sin: Cloth at the Body’s Margins. - Examination of 1980s and 1990s identity politics as it elided with textile-based sculptural production in the U.S. 2021 Art in California. World of Art Series. (London: Thames & Hudson, 2021), 273 pages. In galleys. 2016 Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947-2016. Paul Schimmel and Jenni Sorkin, eds. (Milan: Skira, 2016), 256 pages. 2016 Live Form: Women, Ceramics and Community, (London and Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016), 290 pages. Reviews: Jennifer Sichel, “Live Form: Live Form: Women, Ceramics, and Community, by Jenni Sorkin.” Sculpture Journal v. 28 n. 2 (2019), 267- 271. Tanya Harrod, “Live Form: Women, Ceramics, and Community, by Jenni Sorkin,” The Burlington Magazine. (February 2019), 174-176. Moira Vincentelli, “Live Form: Women, Ceramics, and Community, by Jenni Sorkin,” The Journal of Modern Craft.v.11 n. 2 (July 2018), 4 177-179. Glenn Adamson, “Why There Were Great Women Potters,” Art Journal (Spring 2018), 121-123. K.L.H. Wells, “Live Form: Women, Ceramics, and Community, by Jenni Sorkin,” caa.reviews (December 4, 2017), http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/3134 T'ai Smith, “Live Form: Women, Ceramics, and Community, by Jenni Sorkin,” The Art Bulletin, Vol. 99 n. 3 (September 2017), 178-181. R. Malmgren, “Live Form: Women, Ceramics, and Community, by Jenni Sorkin,” Choice (American Library Association) v. 54 n. 6 (February 2017), 54-2591. Eva Masterman, Review, Cfile, (April 6, 2017) https://cfileonline.org/books-live-form-women-ceramics-and-community- by-jenni-sorkin/ Jessica Shaykett, “Live Form: Women, Ceramics, and Community, by Jenni Sorkin,” Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS) (November 2016), 1056. https://www.arlisna.org/publications/reviews/1056-live-form-women- ceramics-and-community Reprints, Live Form 2018 Craft. (Documents of Contemporary Art) Tanya Harrod, ed. (London: Whitechapel Gallery, 2018), 218-225. 2019 “Forms of Life: Marguerite Wildenhain’s Pond Farm.” Research Archive, Bauhaus Imaginista/Bauhaus 100, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Germany. http://www.bauhaus-imaginista.org Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters 2022 “Ancient Modernisms: Illegibility, Women, and 1950s Weaving.” Postwar Reader: A Global History, 1945-1965. Okwui Enwezor and Atreyee Gupta, eds. (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, forthcoming). Accepted for publication. 2018 “Chapter 6: Alterity Rocks: 1973-1993.” Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now. Maggie Taft and Robert Cozzolino, eds. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2018), 232-279. 2016 “Craftlike: The Illusion of Authenticity.” Nation Building: Craft and 5 Contemporary American Culture. Ed, Nicholas Bell. (London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2016), 73-86. 2012 “Stain: On Cloth, Stigma and Shame,” (2000). The Textile Reader. Jessica Hemmings ed. (Oxford, UK: Berg Publishers, 2012), 220-224; 421-422. * Reprinted from Third Text 53 (Winter 2000/01), 77-80. 2012 “Chapter 8: Pond Farm and the Summer Craft Experience,” in The Countercultural Experiment: Consciousness and Encounters at the Edge of Art. Elissa Auther and Adam Lerner, eds. (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2012), 129-139. Peer-Reviewed Articles 2021 “Time Goes By, So Slowly: Tina Takemoto’s Queer Futurity,” Panorama: Journal of the Association of American Art Historians. (Issue 7.1/Spring 2021), online. https://editions.lib.umn.edu/panorama/article/asian-american-art/time-goes-by-so-slowly/ 2020 “Be A Generalist!” Talk Back section. Panorama: Journal of the Association of American Art Historians. Issue 6.2/Fall 2020), online. https://editions.lib.umn.edu/panorama/article/be-a-generalist/